Re: Internals manual update

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:42:10 -0700
> From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
> 
> So as I've been refreshing my memory about GDB code, I've also been 
> going through the internals manual and making it be more consistent with 
> the current state of things.

Thanks!

> Would people be content with me posting a mega-patch(es) for overall
> progress, or would they prefer individual patches for each specific
> change?

Mega-patches are okay with me, provided that the ChangeLog entries to
go with them allow to figure out which part belongs to what change.

> Also, one specific change I made was to whack down the host stuff to 
> basically one line that says "we used to have host config files", 
> instead of a full section with a warning at the top that the material is 
> of historical interest only. My thought is that if someone really wanted 
> to research a long-gone macro more thoroughly than just review of 
> ChangeLog entries, they would want to get old releases anyway, which 
> would have both internals manual and sources using that macro.

Agreed.  The reason the historical parts are there is that no one made
them up to date.

> In general it seems to me that the internals manual should
> correspond to current sources closely, only have the occasional
> reference to ancient history.

Right.

Thanks again for working on this.